Is It Time To Be `Tough` On Dropouts?

April 23, 1985|By Joseph Engels.

WAUKEGAN — I read with increasing frequency, reports on the high school dropout rate. The solution is to convince these kids that without an education they`ll be losers for life. Our society should guarantee them nothing except the opportunity to support themselves. Cut off the welfare and subsidies, and if they haven`t got their act together by a certain age, draft them. I believe our definition of ``rights`` has deteriorated. The dropouts had the same opportunity to become self-supporting as the members of society they expect to support them.